Books That Feel Like Clues

My list isn’t a best books list, and it isn’t tied to one school. It is like a trail through power, money, fate, and the myths civilizations mistake for reason. I really Hope this is joyful and inspires my friends here.

1. Blood Meridian, 1985, Cormac McCarthy
2. To Rule All under Heaven, Andres S. Meyer, 2026
3. England's Treasure by Thomas Mun, 1664
4. Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England, Thomas Smith (often attributed), 1581
5. Six Books of the Commonwealth, Jean Bodin, 1576
6. Sourcebook in Late-Scholastic Monetary Theory: The Contributions of Martin de Azpilcueta, Luis de Molina, and Juan de Mariana (Studies in Ethics and Economics)
7. The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, 1944
8. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, Richard Tarnas, 2007
9. Notes towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot, 1940s.
10. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World, Tom Chivers, 2024
11. A Failure of Nerve, Revised Edition: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, Edwin Friedman, 2017
12. The Betrayal of the American Right, 1979, Murray N. Rothbard
13. The Art of Contrary Thinking, 1953, Humphrey B. Neill

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